
Originally Posted by
pdsquicciarini
Scary???: When your anchor's dragging, you're 100 yards from coral shelf, your vessel is 600 ft LOA, Draft 34 ft, blowing 35 knots now on the beam, the fathometer is shoaling up and everyone turns in unison and asks: "What do you want to do, Captain?". God gave me 88,000 HP (4 gas turbines) and twin rudders hard over at 37 degrees with an emergency astern/ahead engines twist. "Hold it until I tell you to take the bell off or you hear the crunch." Ended up twisting and skirting coral reef by less than 50 feet clear abeam accelerating to 34 knots to get off the lee shore. Pass a cup of coffee, pray, don't let the crew hear you sweat and when clear and away excuse yourself to your sea cabin to scream. No lottery tickets that week--used up all of my luck, and then some.-Captain Squicciarini
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